Object Details
- Hall, Sylvia
- Description
- One script alphabet, two block alphabets. 26 letters with two or three styles of some capital letters. Numbers 1 to 0 and to 8. These rows separated by rows of cross-stitch. Border of single row of cross-stitch on all four sides. Silk embroidery thread on linen ground. STITCHES: cross, four-sided, crosslet. THREAD COUNT: warp 23, weft 24/in.
- Inscription:
- "Zealously pursue the course
That leads young minds to god
For faith and love & holy hope
Point to the blest abode
S Hall" - Background:
- Sylvia was born on April 18, 1805, to Andrews and Sylvia Blakeslee Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, and she died there in 1859. See her mother's (Sylvia Blakeslee) sampler.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Prisk
- 1810-1820
- ID Number
- TE.T16942
- catalog number
- T16942
- accession number
- 310734
- Object Name
- sampler
- Physical Description
- linen (ground fabric material)
- silk (embroidery thread material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 in x 10 3/8 in; 38.1 cm x 26.3525 cm
- Place Made
- United States: Connecticut, New Haven
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Samplers
- Textiles
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Alphabets
- Record ID
- nmah_639619
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-ad9f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
